If you don't understand my response, go study the American Revolution and Civil War and then maybe talk to some folks in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
If only all these morons plebes would stop being so proud what they and their forefathers (you know, "we the people") have accomplished to make this a place of invidual *liberties* (not privledges, not free stuff). If only they'd become pessimistic defeatist whiners like you, eh? Then they'd realize how awful their lives are. How "ashamed" they should be to be Americans, with their silly notions of individual liberty and pursuit of property. Then they'd turn all power over to government regulation and policy initiatives and everything would be all better. Maybe with you in charge. But you wouldn't want to take too much credit. You're just trying to help all these misrable, shameful selfish people, right? Let's think of you not as a leader, or ruler, just as everybody's helpful big brother. Thak you! I love you big brother!
Maybe Orwell should've added a fourth party phrase for you: "Shame is pride"
You're still missing the point of the original posts.
The gentleman from Australia remarked that the U.S. appeared to be quite far to the right compared most of the world's population. My response was that this was simplistic. It might be argued in the area of economic beliefs, but not in the case of social liberalism. In other words, I am asserting that the United States, in terms of social poltics and culture, is in fact among the world's liberal countries. Not just better than a few at the bottom of the barrel like Saudi Arabia.
This has nothing to with any arbitrary arguement about what the United States can or should be, nor intended to excuse any faults.
And let me be clear - I'm not talking about a smattering of countries here, I am talking about the majority of the countries in regions I mentioned before. These regions involve much of the world's population, and their birthrates are significant. Thus, this isn't some minority of the world's population to which I am comparing the U.S. on the "left-right" political scale.
I'm going to assume you're not trolling and respond:
Re-read my above comment. The point is that it's *not* just Mahdist places like Saudi Arabia & Sudan. Plenty of economically liberal countries in the Carribean, subsaharan Africa, and SE Asia are quite -and often violently- socially conservative to a degree orders of magnitude farther than the 21st century U.S.
I think this is quite simplistic. When it comes to economic issues, yes the U.S. is certainly far less socialist than most large civilizations. When it comes to social issues, however, I think you will find the U.S. to be quite liberal-left compared to much of the world. Really. For many countries if you ask youself "Can I been seen out for a jog on Sunday/Friday/Saturday morning without later being beaten for it?" "Can I wear a goofy outfit and get off with just a few stares rather than being beaten as a fruit/devil worshipper?" "Can women do most/all of the same things men can do in public and the workplace?"
In a very large number of countries (in the carribean, africa, southwest & southeast asia), the answer to these questions are decisevly "no." You may find watered down similarities in parts of other societies like the U.S., but it is the exception rather than the rule. Just because a country tacks elements of government regulation or socialism on to their economy doesn't mean their people are 'left wing.'
Xinjiang has been under the control of China for just over two millenia.
Incorrect. Xinjiang was most recently not under Chinese control during the Ming dynasty. It has at various times within the last two millenia been under the control of the Mongols, Tibetans, and been semi-organized/independent under Turkish tribes.
Oh, and Machuria was independent during the Ming dynasty as well. And the only reason it wasn't distinct afterwards (through the 19th century) was that the Manchu conquered Ming China.
On the one hand, once upon a century, people usually worked at "home" or a business attached to their home. On the other hand, most people then were also self-employed. The question is, will a mass "homesourcing" of jobs lead more people in eligible jobs to realize they can do the same thing (with more leverage) as their own boss?
I personally think that our comparatively crappy K-12 educational system, and an increased dominance of military research over core scientific research plays a big role.
Thanks for your opinion, but the fact is that a significant amount of innovation trickles down to the public sector after initial development for the military. The classic example is the Second World War. For better or worse, I think it's useful to have an actual customer/user available when inventing something. With the DoD, you are guaranteed to have that (and the DoD is interested in much more than just fancy killing machines themselves - as others have mentioned, see the Internet, radar, HUDs, etc).
Well, I know you marked this as a rant and thus deserve some leeway, but I feel like pointing out: I wouldn't compare Monsanto to SCO. SCO (the current incarnation, anyway) isn't at all innovative. Monsanto is quite innovative. Yes, you may not like what they are inventing, or the way they protect it (I certainly have my objections), but they are far more than a revenue stream for lawyers. I'd perhaps compare Monsanto to another large 'M' company in the software buisness, although I think you can argue that Monsanto is actually far more innovative than MS.
Flamebaits are being modded +5 now? Does anyone really believe that time shaving, going after MP3 traders, etc. is somehow directly linked to the current administration? If you think that time shaving wasn't just as much a problem before Bush, for those companies that had fully-electronic time clocks, you're kidding yourself. Similarly, I doubt that these practices will change just from the installation of a new administration. As long as employees take time shaving lying down, and people continue to shop there, it will be a problem.
While I pretty much agree with what you're saying, I think this says more about what a ripoff movies are than it says about the good pricing of video games.
I'm usually the first to bemoan non-news postings, but the fact is that slashdot is also a community (see "Ask Slashdot"). While posting every single theft report doesn't make sense, you have to admit that it would be cool, in this case, if the slashdot community came up with a way to track this auto down using technology, yes?
Dish is in the dangerous position. DirecTV is harder to cut off, because if Comcast tries to cut DirecTV out, News Corp. will cut Comcast out of Fox News, Fox Sports Net, and network-owned affiliates.
So this is what it has come to... mutually assured destruction as the means to keep mega-media corps in check.
So the article mentions new laws for cable and DSL. I wonder if they have covered their bases with wiretap laws for satellite ISPs? I know little about how staellite internet access is set up beyond the cost and latency specs. Anyone know if there's less/more/similar difficulty involved something like direcway traffic? I would imagine they can still stick something like our friend "carnivore" at the direcway base station?
Well, technically Philadelphia and Illinois were annexed by Canada. Canada, India, the UK, and Australia then reconstituted the British Empire. They're new currency is the RupeePoundDollar.
Starting to get OT, but anyway: They seem to have fixed this behaviour in the 2004 (Accord, anyway) models. With my 2004 you can leave the trunk open without complaint. Dunno what would happen if you opened the rear seat pass-thru, though.
Generally the way it works with DARPA is that the inventing university can patent their invention. The university may exercise their patent rights however they like with one exception: the defense department has the right to use the invention however they like.
I also recently bought the Midway collection. Fortunately I'm ambidextrous, so I haven't had too many problems. That said, some games aren't as much fun without specialized controls (which I am too cheap to buy). Vindicators isn't the same without the real tank controls. And the racing game, don't remember the name, is damn near impossible with the stock PS2 controller. But I could play Marble Madness, Rampage, and Gauntlet all day.
Of particular concern is that they have implemented a "graduated" admissions policy in their universities. An upper caste member might not be able to get into a school with a 90% score on the entrance exams, but a lower caste member may be assured admission with a 70% score.
But enough about the United States; what were you going to say about India?
(+1 Snide, here I come!)
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Much insecurity I sense in you...
Exactly
If you don't understand my response, go study the American Revolution and Civil War and then maybe talk to some folks in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Much hatred I sense in you...
If only all these morons plebes would stop being so proud what they and their forefathers (you know, "we the people") have accomplished to make this a place of invidual *liberties* (not privledges, not free stuff). If only they'd become pessimistic defeatist whiners like you, eh? Then they'd realize how awful their lives are. How "ashamed" they should be to be Americans, with their silly notions of individual liberty and pursuit of property. Then they'd turn all power over to government regulation and policy initiatives and everything would be all better. Maybe with you in charge. But you wouldn't want to take too much credit. You're just trying to help all these misrable, shameful selfish people, right? Let's think of you not as a leader, or ruler, just as everybody's helpful big brother. Thak you! I love you big brother!
Maybe Orwell should've added a fourth party phrase for you: "Shame is pride"
You're still missing the point of the original posts.
The gentleman from Australia remarked that the U.S. appeared to be quite far to the right compared most of the world's population. My response was that this was simplistic. It might be argued in the area of economic beliefs, but not in the case of social liberalism.
In other words, I am asserting that the United States, in terms of social poltics and culture, is in fact among the world's liberal countries. Not just better than a few at the bottom of the barrel like Saudi Arabia.
This has nothing to with any arbitrary arguement about what the United States can or should be, nor intended to excuse any faults.
And let me be clear - I'm not talking about a smattering of countries here, I am talking about the majority of the countries in regions I mentioned before. These regions involve much of the world's population, and their birthrates are significant. Thus, this isn't some minority of the world's population to which I am comparing the U.S. on the "left-right" political scale.
I'm going to assume you're not trolling and respond:
Re-read my above comment.
The point is that it's *not* just Mahdist places like Saudi Arabia & Sudan. Plenty of economically liberal countries in the Carribean, subsaharan Africa, and SE Asia are quite -and often violently- socially conservative to a degree orders of magnitude farther than the 21st century U.S.
I think this is quite simplistic.
When it comes to economic issues, yes the U.S. is certainly far less socialist than most large civilizations. When it comes to social issues, however, I think you will find the U.S. to be quite liberal-left compared to much of the world.
Really.
For many countries if you ask youself "Can I been seen out for a jog on Sunday/Friday/Saturday morning without later being beaten for it?" "Can I wear a goofy outfit and get off with just a few stares rather than being beaten as a fruit/devil worshipper?" "Can women do most/all of the same things men can do in public and the workplace?"
In a very large number of countries (in the carribean, africa, southwest & southeast asia), the answer to these questions are decisevly "no." You may find watered down similarities in parts of other societies like the U.S., but it is the exception rather than the rule. Just because a country tacks elements of government regulation or socialism on to their economy doesn't mean their people are 'left wing.'
Xinjiang has been under the control of China for just over two millenia.
Incorrect. Xinjiang was most recently not under Chinese control during the Ming dynasty. It has at various times within the last two millenia been under the control of the Mongols, Tibetans, and been semi-organized/independent under Turkish tribes.
Oh, and Machuria was independent during the Ming dynasty as well. And the only reason it wasn't distinct afterwards (through the 19th century) was that the Manchu conquered Ming China.
On the one hand, once upon a century, people usually worked at "home" or a business attached to their home. On the other hand, most people then were also self-employed. The question is, will a mass "homesourcing" of jobs lead more people in eligible jobs to realize they can do the same thing (with more leverage) as their own boss?
*BRAAAAAP*
I personally think that our comparatively crappy K-12 educational system, and an increased dominance of military research over core scientific research plays a big role.
Thanks for your opinion, but the fact is that a significant amount of innovation trickles down to the public sector after initial development for the military. The classic example is the Second World War. For better or worse, I think it's useful to have an actual customer/user available when inventing something. With the DoD, you are guaranteed to have that (and the DoD is interested in much more than just fancy killing machines themselves - as others have mentioned, see the Internet, radar, HUDs, etc).
... I'd need to start folding my clothes and doing my dishes before I started worrying about organizing my computers! =)
Monsanto makes SCO look like Boy Scouts
Well, I know you marked this as a rant and thus deserve some leeway, but I feel like pointing out: I wouldn't compare Monsanto to SCO. SCO (the current incarnation, anyway) isn't at all innovative. Monsanto is quite innovative. Yes, you may not like what they are inventing, or the way they protect it (I certainly have my objections), but they are far more than a revenue stream for lawyers. I'd perhaps compare Monsanto to another large 'M' company in the software buisness, although I think you can argue that Monsanto is actually far more innovative than MS.
Flamebaits are being modded +5 now?
Does anyone really believe that time shaving, going after MP3 traders, etc. is somehow directly linked to the current administration? If you think that time shaving wasn't just as much a problem before Bush, for those companies that had fully-electronic time clocks, you're kidding yourself.
Similarly, I doubt that these practices will change just from the installation of a new administration. As long as employees take time shaving lying down, and people continue to shop there, it will be a problem.
While I pretty much agree with what you're saying, I think this says more about what a ripoff movies are than it says about the good pricing of video games.
I'm usually the first to bemoan non-news postings, but the fact is that slashdot is also a community (see "Ask Slashdot"). While posting every single theft report doesn't make sense, you have to admit that it would be cool, in this case, if the slashdot community came up with a way to track this auto down using technology, yes?
Shh! You'll start a flame war. =)
Dish is in the dangerous position. DirecTV is harder to cut off, because if Comcast tries to cut DirecTV out, News Corp. will cut Comcast out of Fox News, Fox Sports Net, and network-owned affiliates.
So this is what it has come to... mutually assured destruction as the means to keep mega-media corps in check.
500 years worth of refried beans.
And don't forget plenty of Rico's nacho cheese. It's the profitmaker!
So the article mentions new laws for cable and DSL. I wonder if they have covered their bases with wiretap laws for satellite ISPs?
I know little about how staellite internet access is set up beyond the cost and latency specs. Anyone know if there's less/more/similar difficulty involved something like direcway traffic? I would imagine they can still stick something like our friend "carnivore" at the direcway base station?
Didn't you hear?
Well, technically Philadelphia and Illinois were annexed by Canada. Canada, India, the UK, and Australia then reconstituted the British Empire. They're new currency is the RupeePoundDollar.
*rimshot*
Amen. This is just more of the usual "criticize the other side" partisan bickering.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Starting to get OT, but anyway:
They seem to have fixed this behaviour in the 2004 (Accord, anyway) models. With my 2004 you can leave the trunk open without complaint. Dunno what would happen if you opened the rear seat pass-thru, though.
Nice idea in urban areas, but that isn't going to fly in rural areas. Besides, people would just park on the side of the road.
Generally the way it works with DARPA is that the inventing university can patent their invention. The university may exercise their patent rights however they like with one exception: the defense department has the right to use the invention however they like.
I also recently bought the Midway collection. Fortunately I'm ambidextrous, so I haven't had too many problems. That said, some games aren't as much fun without specialized controls (which I am too cheap to buy).
Vindicators isn't the same without the real tank controls.
And the racing game, don't remember the name, is damn near impossible with the stock PS2 controller.
But I could play Marble Madness, Rampage, and Gauntlet all day.
Of particular concern is that they have implemented a "graduated" admissions policy in their universities. An upper caste member might not be able to get into a school with a 90% score on the entrance exams, but a lower caste member may be assured admission with a 70% score.
But enough about the United States; what were you going to say about India?
(+1 Snide, here I come!)